A couple of days ago, HWBOT members reported a bug affecting one of the stages in the G.SKILL OC World Cup 2016 Online Qualifier. In 3DMark01, when the integrated graphics is cooled to a temperature close to the cold bug threshold, the Frames per Second increases significantly. Typically this kind of behavior is detected by Futuremark's System Info, but since 3DMark01 has been discontinued by Futuremark there is no way to validate this issue online. Following this finding, the competition organization has decided to replace the 3DMark01 stage with another stage.

To ensure a clean and fair contest, HWBOT and G.SKILL have decided to reset the 3DMark01 stage and include 3DMark Vantage in the World Cup Online Qualifier. The 3DMark01 benchmark will also not be accepted as community choice benchmark for the Live Qualifier. In addition, the qualification time has been extended to 18th of April.

1 year and 6 months ago –
I'm out after 3 dead igp! Honestly...this shouldn't be the main part of a memory vendor. Mem definitely pushes the score, but it also does it with the igp at stock. A max freq on igp kills them so freaking fast and without any reason. I know, this is personal bad luck, but I Def don't wanna kill more chips by now...

1 year and 6 months ago –
1 dead IGP here.
Could've been more if I had more Chips.
It was definitely Core PLL in my Case. Need to be careful with that Voltage, as Elmor suggested.
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1 year and 6 months ago –
One died at 1.65...I thought, well...let's go lower! Then 1.55...died in bios. Then 1.4...died in bios as well.
All chips except the first one at 160 degrees. ..MINUS!
Sure, maybe I did something wrong, but to prevent that, I won't play igp any longer!

Dancop said: One died at 1.65...I thought, well...let's go lower! Then 1.55...died in bios. Then 1.4...died in bios as well.
All chips except the first one at 160 degrees. ..MINUS!
Sure, maybe I did something wrong, but to prevent that, I won't play igp any longer!

Sorry to hear, we are having similar problems in the US. Was it Core PLL or the IGP voltage that causes this?

1 year and 6 months ago –
So many dead IGP :eek:
It's weird, during our local amateur competitions (using air/water) with i7-6700K with IGP(and 3DMark Fire Strike/Cloud Gate), I don't find dead IGP even though some of the contestant gives it 1.45-1.5V Vaxg(GT Voltage).
I wonder what volts under cold is causing this..I'll try benching one of my banana CPU under cold next week.

Splave said: You need the pll voltage. On air it's 1300mhz vs 1400mhz Max. Its like saying don't oc so hard in an oc contest for 10k.

Hi Man,
This 'pll voltage' you were talking about and giving the IGP more clocks, is it the Core PLL, PLL Bandwidth, PLL Termination, or Internal PLL Overvoltage? Interested in testing what is killing these IGPUs :)

1 year and 5 months ago –
What splave said...+1
Lost chip #4 although I was careful with voltages. Those igp are so damn fragile!
Or, if igp is a must, for a reason, I don't understand, limit it to 1400 mhz or something. That way, the mem is much more important than a nicely binned igp
I've tried the difference between strong mem and 25mhz more on igp.
That means...
1450 igp with 4000c12-11-11 vs. 1475 igp with 2133c15 stock mem.
Gt3 in 11 equals in 15.42 vs. 15.82 fps.
This benchmark is heavily mem related but the igp does its work much better ;)